The Chai Tattle - 12th August 2025

Market Index values took a dip in the last hour of the trading day as profit taking took centre stage with many companies announcing earning calls in the next couple of weeks stimulating investors to close out some of their market positions as they wait for more news. Expectedly some of the late session buying was concentrated in the Large Cap sector

57.24%

of the market volume was concentrated in Large Cap.

The tetchy performance of the market indices is observed in the spread of market returns with negative skewness outsizing the gains by some margin in the low single digits, but some outlier positive returns kept the Index value volatility lower.

The textile sector drove majority of the volume in the Consumer Discretionary sector but as the asset economy continues to do positive numbers the Financial sector has garnered increasing positions from the asset management sector.

of the shares traded compared to free float available shares

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YOUW lead the market on the delta and volume metrics with ICIBL doing well in both metrics too and interest in the Information Technology sector has tanked by a considerable margin as the total sector had less than 16mn in volume and a negative delta.

Bilal Fibres will be changing its name to Zuma Resources Limited and increasing the share capital by 200mn.

Sazgar Engineering announced sales of 1079 four wheel vehicles and 1415 three wheel ones.

TPL property sold a substantial position of its position in the TPL REIT fund to
Mohammad Ali Jameel.

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